About a month ago I shared that our home study report had been completed by our social worker in Manila and that all we were waiting on was for the report to be approved by our agency in the US before it could be submitted to the Inter-Country Adoption Board of the Philippines (ICAB). As it turned out our agency (Holt) wanted to augment the report with a child abuse clearance from Washington State. We were also told that we needed to access some online adoption preparation classes so that they could state that we had into the report. We've been working on these things in the past few weeks.
I enrolled Andrey and I in a few classes with Adoption Learning Partners - One is "Becoming your child's best advocate: Help for adoptive parents" and the other, "The Journey of Attachment." There are many classes available to choose from but these two will get us started for now.
On Friday I got a text from our social worker saying that they received our child abuse clearances from Washington State (we're clear, by the way) and that the final draft of our home study report is complete and waiting for final approval from Holt.
Here's hoping they consider it complete and give our social worker the go-ahead to submit it to ICAB. I'll keep you posted.
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xo, you'll be awesome parents. I'm still working on my Matthew Story, and I've a new book rec. I'm reading it now.
Come on Jesus, bring on the babies for J & A!!
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